Robert Marcel Lepage

Montréal, Québec, 1951

Composer • Performer (clarinet, saxophone)

Robert Lepage has made so many CDs, STRIPs, SCOREs, and HONKs, that you have to wonder if he has
some secret power-breakfast. He gets up very early to compose music for TV series (Urgences,
Belphégor) before stealing away to the pool to stretch out lengthways (he wouldn’t do it anywhere
else). By 9 o’clock he is back in the studio with other musicians to create music for the stage,
for dance (Lucie Grégoire’s Hatysa) and for documentaries (Werner Vokmer’s Roussil, Manon Barbeau’s
Les Enfants du Refus global). In the afternoon, he watches full-length films for which he will
record new music the next day (Bernard Émond’s 20h17 rue Darling, Rodrigue Jean’s Yellowknife). He
sometimes gets together with colleagues later in the afternoon to improvise or to talk about the
music they want to do or collaborate on. He even puts on the occasional show in which his
compositions share the stage with his strange, original ideas. Don’t miss him on these occasions or
else you’ll have to try the pool.